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Amaryllis

(11,359 posts)
Thu Apr 23, 2026, 09:31 PM Thursday

We Love Americans -- But Not Their Leaders -- New LEGO Video from IRAN

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It is AI but of course it is because it's lego animation.

WE LOVE AMERICANS — BUT NOT THEIR LEADERS 🇮🇷❤️🇺🇸 | Lego Animation | Political Anthem

What if the people you were told to fear… actually loved you?

This is not a war cry. This is not propaganda. This is a message from ordinary people on the other side of the wall — people who have watched, listened, and refused to stay silent any longer.

"We Love Americans — But Not Their Leaders" is a Lego CGI animated political anthem told from an Iranian perspective — not to the governments, not to the institutions — but directly to the American people. The people who work double shifts. The people who bury their children in flagged coffins. The people who were never invited to the feast that was supposedly held in their name.

This song is for YOU.

🧱 ABOUT THIS VIDEO

Produced entirely in Blender using cinematic Lego-style CGI animation, every frame of this video was designed to make the invisible… visible. From puppet masters above city skylines, to constitutional scrolls being twisted beyond recognition, to two grieving mothers on opposite sides of a transparent wall — this animation pulls no punches and spares no truth.

No names are mentioned.
None are needed.

📖 WHAT THIS SONG COVERS

✅ How the left-right political divide is manufactured — not natural
✅ How your tax dollars fund wars you never voted for
✅ How the media produces enemies on an assembly line
✅ How history books have had their most important chapters quietly removed
✅ How social media was designed to keep neighbors arguing — not uniting
✅ How the same bolt of cloth made both the blue suit and the red tie
✅ How billionaires write the laws that govern the people who fund their campaigns
✅ How the pharmaceutical system profits more from sick people than cured ones
✅ How the founding fathers warned about all of this — in writing — centuries ago
✅ Why Iranians, Iraqis, Afghans, and Americans are more alike than any government wants you to know

💬 A MESSAGE TO EVERY AMERICAN WATCHING

We do not hate your freedom. Your freedom is our dream.
We do not celebrate your suffering. We mourn it — the same way we mourn our own.
We have read your Constitution. We know what those words were supposed to mean.

The ones who turned your sacred document into a tool of power are not you.
The ones who sent your children to wars they would never fight themselves are not you.
The ones who sit at the feast held in your name… never sent you an invitation.

You are not crazy for feeling like something is wrong.
You are not alone.

And from the other side of the wall they built between us — We see you.

🌍 THIS VIDEO IS FOR

→ Americans who feel something is deeply wrong but can't name it
→ People outside America who want to separate the government from the people
→ Students of geopolitics, history, and media literacy
→ Anyone who believes ordinary people across the world have more in common than their leaders want them to know
→ Truth seekers. Critical thinkers. Wide-awake humans.

⚠️ DISCLAIMER

This video contains no hate speech, no incitement, and no violence. It is a work of political art and civic commentary protected under principles of free expression. It criticizes systems and institutions — not ordinary people of any nationality, religion, or background. All animation is Lego-style CGI. No real individuals are depicted or named.

🔔 If this video opened your eyes — SHARE IT. The algorithm buries what the powerful fear. Your share is more powerful than any media machine.

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highplainsdem

(62,684 posts)
1. You have no idea who's behind that video. No way to know. The group that first got attention for Lego animation has
Thu Apr 23, 2026, 10:09 PM
Thursday

a spokesman who opposed the protests in Iran, didn't think those were valid, thought the protests were funded by Trump.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjd8jrd1vnyo

-snip-

For our new BBC podcast, Top Comment, we spoke to a representative of Explosive Media, one of the key accounts generating these clips. He wanted us to refer to him as Mr Explosive.

He's a savvy social media operator who initially denies working for the Iranian government. In previous interviews the outlet has said it is "totally independent". But upon further questioning, Mr Explosive admits the regime is a "customer" - something he's never before confirmed publicly.

-snip-

Before the outbreak of the war this year, thousands of protesters were killed in a brutal crackdown by the regime. The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (Hrana) reports a death toll of at least 7,000 civilians.

But Mr Explosive defends his team's relationship with the government saying it was "honourable to work for the homeland". He dismisses the recent mass protests as a "coup" funded by President Trump.

-snip-


They're not using only Blender, software that's been around for decades but is mixed with AI in a lot of tools now.

They're using one of the AI music generators, all of which are trained on stolen work.

There's absolutely no reason to believe this isn't government-approved propaganda from people who hate Trump but also hate democracy.

I'm sorry, but there's no way to know if anything said in these videos is sincere, or if this is just more cynical propaganda.

progressoid

(53,284 posts)
3. Now dubbed "slopaganda"
Thu Apr 23, 2026, 10:43 PM
Thursday

....Second, it is a very effective way of diluting the epistemic environment – the world of what we think we know – with falsehoods and half-truths. As philosophers have argued, ChatGPT and other generative AI tools can be machines for bullshit, in the sense of content that is indifferent to truth.

Slopaganda can be understood as a special kind of AI bullshit, but its unique features become clearer when we look at its use in campaigns such as the Iranian Lego videos.

This is not just bullshit. No one is misled into thinking Trump can pilot an F-16 and drop faeces out of it. No one (we hope) believes plastic Trump Lego figurines are in cahoots with a plastic Satan figurine.

Rather than aiming for accuracy, the slopaganda is expressive and emblematic of feelings and emotions, and meant to create an association. The intended linkages are something like Satan is associated with Trump while the United States is associated with evil, and so on.

https://theconversation.com/slopaganda-wars-how-and-why-the-us-and-iran-are-flooding-the-zone-with-viral-ai-generated-noise-280024

https://theconversation.com/irans-ai-memes-are-reaching-people-who-dont-follow-the-news-and-winning-the-propaganda-war-280944

LudwigPastorius

(14,882 posts)
2. I don't buy that 'red and blue are the same thing' both sides bullshit they're selling.
Thu Apr 23, 2026, 10:24 PM
Thursday

Also, they came right up to the edge of saying "Jews control you" without saying it.

Horseshit propaganda, regardless of how cute and catchy they make it.

Renew Deal

(85,279 posts)
6. "Your freedom is our dream"
Thu Apr 23, 2026, 11:14 PM
Thursday

Do they truly mean that? I'm actually surprised they let that through.

highplainsdem

(62,684 posts)
7. If you look at that channel's page for all their videos, you'll see the first three, late last month, were
Thu Apr 23, 2026, 11:17 PM
Thursday

two religious songs and a ripoff of the Lion King.

Then they didn't upload any videos until 9 days ago, and since then they've uploaded 22 of these Lego videos, completely switching the type of clickbait.

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